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Sick, bleeargh!

Was off sick today.
Had the sniffles yesterday and a rather unpleasant moment when my vision went all weird (symptoms of a migrain but I didn't get one)

Woke up this morning and had the head from hell, awful headache, no fun. Thankfully the sniffles were gone but I still felt like crap.

Further update on Ric

Just had a text from Sarah about Ric. His mum has been in touch and he is doing OK. Apparently he knows that he isn't allowed visitors and isn't happy about it. He is also hungry which has to be a good sign.

Update on Ric

Had a text from my friend Sarah who has been to the hosiptal to find out more about Ric. He is in theatre at the moment so we are awaiting more information. She has also made contact with his dad so hopefully we'll have a better idea soon of exactly what happened. There is a report in The Echo acknowledging that Ric was stabbed on Sunday in Westcliff. It is reported that his stomach wound was 8 inches wide and at the time he was critical but stable (borne out by the fact he is now in theatre) Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

Hopefully theatre will go well.

Toni's update

Just spoke to Toni following her visit to the solicitor. She took Jade with her so that she could give an account of what happened last night with S4B and her room.

Toni's solicitor is going to write to S4Bs and tell them that Alex and S4B need to leave the property with 7 days otherwise they will seek an injunction and occupation order. They are also clearing up a lot of S4B's misinformation that he has been feeding his solicitor.

Should be interesting to see how things go once the letters are received and reach S4B!

Poor Hazel, RIP Fred

Poor Hazel had to take Fred to the vet today as we was ill. A year ago he was touch and go but managed to hang in there but unfortunately all was not well, the vet found a tumour and the old boy had to be put to sleep. Hazel is devestated as she has had him for 17 years.

Get well soon Ric

Just found out that a guy I know from Evolution, Ric Wallace, was stabbed last night. Apparently he is now stable enough to be operated on.

Thinking of you mate and hope that you make a speedy recovery.

Grrrrrrrrr, damn bloke!

Toni called me today to say that S4B had moved into Jade's room following a letter from his solicitor. Absolutely outrageous, the man does everything he can to wind Toni up. She is seeing her solicitor tomorrow and I hope that action can be taken to get him out. Apparently Jade went back to the house, took his stuff out and then balled him out on the phone making it quite clear that he was NOT using her room. This was ll in front of his brother Alex. The saga continues but the wen of lies that S4B is spinning is going to catch up with him in the end. As the saying goes, "give him enough rope........"

Early rise

Woke up early today as Toni and Aaron had to shoot back to London first thing. Was nice to have a bit of time to relax before going to work though

Porky goodness

Toni made delicious roast pork for dinner. It was yummy and the crackling was ace. It was only spoiled by the children falling out and grumping at each other, well not spoiled but the atmosphere was horrible at the table.

Rehearsal and audition cancelled!

POOH!
Got a text from Vikki saying that her lift had let her down and she didn't have enough money for the train so she wouldn't be able to make it for her audition. I text Matt to see if he wanted to rehearse anyway and he said that it would suit him if we didn't today so all bets were off. Was a real bummer as I was totally geared up for it.

Housework!

HA! How insane am I? Got up early today and started doing housework. LOTS of housework. The place hasn't looked this clean in ages. Was getting tired of living in a dump and as there were people coming round I wanted it to look nice.

Got loads done and the house looked wonderful, even got the boys to mow and strim the lawn front and back (much to their disgust)

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

Our day climaxed with a trip to the cinema to see Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. It was a most pleasant experience. It did what it said on the tin and was perfect for a comic book film. Lots of action, fun, camp, kitsch, it had it all. If you enjoyed the first one you'll definitely enjoy the sequel!

TGI Friday!

Toni, Sam, Aaron and I went to TGI Friday in Bas Vegas and had a wonderful meal. I love that place and Jack Daniels ribs just taste SOOOOOO good!

Sam picked himself up an application form with a view to trying to get a weekend job there.

Practice makes (im)perfect

Didn't start practicing as soon as I had hoped but a couple of runs through of a couple of my old songs as I want to teach them to Matt to boost our set list. Then had a few moments just playing various riffs before it was time to leave for the next part of our busy day.

Shopping and lunch

Toni and I got up early-ish today to go into Chelmsford and do some shopping. Started off in Pizza Hut as we were both starving. Did some shopping (and I popped into Allegro Music to drool over guitars) before heading back home again as I needed to do some practicing for the next Hollywood Doll rehearsal and audition of Vikki Doll.

Pirate Night at Evolution!

Toni and I went to Evolution tonight for Pirate Night. Lots of dressing up done by one and all and a great night.

Me:


Toni:


Us!:


Neil:


Matt:










You can view all the photos from in my Picasa web album here: h190908PirateNightEvolution

Floating jam weirdness!

Sam was helping to clean the fridge tonight and when he took the jam out of the fridge it appeared to be floating, how weird!

Pirate me ready for work!

Talk Like A Pirate Day

AVAST!
Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Check out the full details here: http://www.talklikeapirate.com

The UK HQ is here: http://www.yarr.org.uk




Toni and I are off to Pirate Night at Evolution tonight!

Happy Birthday Sharon

Happy Birthday Sharon,

I am thinking of you wherever you are and will riase a glass to you tonight.

Keith
x

Hollywood Doll update

Things are forging on with Hollywood Doll now. Matt has forwarded me a rough recording of his new song (and I have just remebered how to play all of my old one that we rehearsed on Sunday). Was meant to record it but I got sidetracked LOL

Matt and I have been talking to one of our possible singers, Victoria Payne (who I have now christened Vikki Doll) and she seems very excited about the chance to audition. She has a good voice and I think even if she doesnt make it into Hollywood Doll I'll still collaborate with her on The Project (my goth/electronic/acoustic sideline).

Pepsi Tate (1965 - 2007)

Today marks the first year since the passing of Tigertailz bass player Pepsi Tate.

You are missed my friend!

Lazy start

Got up at the usual time as Toni had to head off at 07:30 and then I had an hour to amuse myself. Bit of a novelty but I didn't have to get the train as Mike B had offered to give me a lift to and from work. Same again for tomorrow, YAY!

Nice to snuggle

Toni came over this evening (a midweek visit, that makes a change!).
Was lovely to see her again (even though it had only been a couple of days. We popped to Asda and bought a few things, Toni made lovely lamb chops and stir fry vegetables for dinner and we watched a DVD and then did some work together on a Capitals article that needed to be submitted to a newspaper.
Showers and then snuggles, it was lovely!

Not long now and slightly sad

Sent a text to Gloria today to see when Zoë's baby was due. It's not long now, due on the 30th September. She is still living in the small flat with Ron and Toby.

Was sadddened slightly as Gloria said that she hadn't text me recently as I am in a new relationship.......... *sigh*

Lloyds TSB and HBOS to merge?

Lots of talk about HBOS being in advanced talks to take over Lloyds TSB. Have to say I have mixed feelings about this as I wasn't very happy when Halifax took over (sorry, merged with) Bank Of Scotland to become HBOS and this won't make things any better.

There is however something very good about all this, the new Lloyds TSB logo:


LMFAO!

Slow day

Today was an incredibly slow one, it just seemed to drag on and on I just couldn't get motivated. I hate it when it's like that. Only plus side was winning two rounds of pool.

Only bit of excitement involved a falling out with a hack journalist but even that wasn't wonderful. Hopefully tomorrow will be better (Toni is coming over in the evening so I expect it will be......... *grin*)

Sam had a good day at Tate Britain though and it was nice to see him quite excited about something that he had done with school.

Last.FM listening post!

Here's last week's top picks music lovers!

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Overall top tracks:


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Hollywood Doll kicks off!

Well it finally happened.
Matt Rowe came round today and we had our first rehearsal. Both of us were nursing the heads a bit but we managed to run through It's So Easy bu Guns N Roses and 48 Hours by Pretty Boy Floyd. We then worked on a song that Matt had written and one of my old ones.

All in all it was a good start and I can't wait to start auditioning singers and drummers and really cracking on!

Hangover from hell!

It's all Rex's fault! I was quite happy drinking JD and coke all night but then Rex gave me some champagne and that must have tilted the balance as I felt bally awful today!

Didn't get up until 12 and then it was VERY slowly LOL

Vendetta time again!

Wow, what a night. Vendetta tonight was AWESOME! Best one so far and loads of people there which made a very pleasant change.

Toni, Karen and I:


Karen and Toni outside:


Show us yer knickers!


Tart!


Karen & Toni:


Hazel & Craig:


That hat is back again:


Poles apart:


Matt (Hollywood Doll guitarist):


View all the pics on my Picasa web album:
130908VendettaClubEvolution#

Lazy day

Had a really lazy day today.
With no kids around there was no reason to get up early and do anything. We ended up just dossing about and did stuff with the computers. Late in the afternoon we popped to Asda to get soem supplies. We started cooking stuff on our return and then Toni dyed my hair. She popped over to Wickford to pick up Karen whilst I kept an eye on the food (and my dye had its required time).

Sam came back and had Tristan staying for the night as we were out.

After eating we then started getting ready for our trip to Vendetta!

TGI Friday!

Got home from work to a kid free house and Toni arrived soon afterwards (also without kids). Spent a couple of hours connecting her new latptop to wireless network and then she installed loads of software.

At around 20:30 we realised we were starving so went to Bas Vegas to TGI FRIDAY'S and had a fantastic meal. Monster shared starter followed by full rack of Jack Daniel's ribs for me and steak for Toni. Friday night in Bas Vegas was a real eye opener and I really wish I had had my camera with me as there was some truly despicable fashion on display.

This is rock n roll!

Time to recommend a few great CDs to you, my sad and deluded readers! That isn't an insult by the way but I do find it increadible that people actually read all this rubbish that I post every day LMFAO!

OK, so here there are, in no particular order:

Drugdealer Cheerleader - Enjoy The Time You Waste
The Crybabys - Daily Misery
The Quireboys - Homewreckers & Heartbreakers
Tyla - In Life, In Love, In Dreams
K.O.Kaine - Accelerator

and last but certainly not least

Various Artists - Hair Apparent (contains my friend Simon's band The Wynntown Marshalls covering The Ballad Of Jayne by L.A.Guns)

48 Hours

It's Friday night and I wanna rock.
I got 48 hours on the clock. Were runnin now 'til 6 A.M.
When Monday starts that grind again.
I spend five days waiting for two.
We'll do the things that we wanna do.
We'll tell the boss goodbye, the teachers too.
The next two days belong to you.

Rock. Rock.
48 hours. 48 hours.
To rock. To rock.
We got 48 hours. 48 hours to rock.

The weekend world is another place.
We put on a different face.
We live it hard and play it fast.
'Cause Monday rolls around to fast.
It's like money to burn. No time to spare.
We both go fast on a wild weekend.
Don't wanna sleep. Don't wanna stop.
There ain't much time on the clock.

Rock. Rock.
48 hours. 48 hours to rock.
To rock.
We got 48 hours. 48 hours to rock.
To rock.

Oh yeah.

Ready boys? Yeah. We're ready. Well, lets go.

We're gonna rock. Rock.
48 hours. 48 hours.
To rock. To rock.
48 hours. 48 hours to rock.
Oh. To rock.

Rock. Rock.
48 hours. 48 hours to rock.
To rock.
48 hours. 48 hours to rock.
To rock.

We got 48 hours. 48 hours to rock.
To rock.

- 48 Hours (Pretty Boy Floyd)

Hollywood Doll taking shape finally

Well after months of inactivity Hollywood Doll could finally be taking shape.
Matt and I have agreed on some songs to have a bash at and we have three singers lined up to audition as well.

It's good to be da Glitz!

New developer has almost been grown

Well I heard we were having a new developer join us soon. What I hadn't realised was that he was going to be cultured, literally!

Here he is (looking very cultured) in a cup that needs to be incinerated!

This is GROSS!

Rentaghost to return!

Totally awesome, I loved Rentaghost. Check out the news item about a remake being made:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7604192.stm

Fairy Story

A married couple in their early 60s was celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant.

Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table.

She said, 'For being such an exemplary married couple and for being loving to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish.'

The wife answered, 'Oh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband.'

The fairy waved her magic wand and - poof! - two tickets for the Queen Mary II appeared in her hands.

The husband thought for a moment: 'Well, this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again. I'm sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me.'

The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish.

So the fairy waved her magic wand and poof!...the husband became 92 years old.

The moral of this story: Men who are ungrateful bastards should remember fairies are female.....

Scarlett Louise Malins

Here she is:


I have to admit she one fantastic name!

It's a girl!

Sophie just text me to day that she has had her latest scan and it's a girl!
I'll post a pic of the latest scan later on.
Grandad Glitz is smiling away!

Yuk, feeling like carp!

Had a really crap night last night and as the day has gone on I have felt a little worse for wear.
Am now sitting here typing this with nose streaming and the sneezes and sniffles. I hope it's just cos I am tired and not a full blown cold

Good evening officer!

I'd not been in long from work when there was a knock at the front door. Sam answered it as I was getting changed and imagine my worry/surprise when he called up that there was a policeman on the doorstep.

I rushed downstairs to be presented with a letter telling me that I was to be called as a witness for the prosecution in a case at Edinburgh High Court in November. Although I knew a while back that this might be on the cards it was a it of a shock to actual receive the paperwork instructing me to attend.

On the plus side I get a trip to Edinburgh even if the circumstances aren't great!

LastFM listening post!

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Busy Sunday.....stuff to do!

Went to Chelmsford again today with Toni and Sophie. Had to go back to Game as Toni had a text from her manager saying that she needed to pick up some PS2 games for one of her clients.

We had a cold drink at Starbucks before heading off to Lidl to get some essential bits in for the week.

Toni made a lovely casserole for dinner.

A lot of time was spent having a general tidy up (finally emptying out the holiday bag) and also putting washing away.

Watched the Edinburgh Capitals get beaten 1 - 4 by Belfast Giants via webcast, did some media stuff and then it was an early night as Toni had to leave early in the morning to get Aaron back in time for school.

Goth food?

Goth food?
Purple tortilla chips, PERFECT!

Just because!

Low Down & Dirty 80s Night

Seemed like ages since we had last been at Evolution so it was nice to be back and chat to some friends. Didn't hang around for too long a we were both tired but we'll be back in full force for Vendetta next Saturday.

Shopping!

Went to Chelmsford today with Toni, Sophie, Sam and Aaron.

Sam's feet were in a right old state after wearing my DMs all week so I told him he had to have some new shoes. Got him a nice pair that will do him for his last few months at school and also a pair of skate shoes too. Aaron also had some new trainers bought for him.

We went to Game and Sam traded in some old Xbox 360 games to get the much anticipated SPORE for the PC. (The game that he had spent last night creating dodgy creatures for using the demo of Creature Creator). Then we all sat down for five minutes and enjoyed the warm goodness of Starbucks.

Next stop was Boots were I got some razors and Toni and I bought some fabulous make up, I love doing girly shopping!

Finally we popped into Claire's Accessories where I got some delightful legwarmers ready for our trip to Low Down & Dirty 80s Night and we picked some some matching 80s stylee earrings.

Aaron the teenager

Lots of reference had been made of late about how Aaron was starting to turn into Kevin The Teenager (of Harry Enfield fame). He turns 13 in November so we decided to let him watch Kevin's Guide To Being A Teenager (from the Kevin & Perry Go Large DVD).

He thought it was hilarious although I don't think he realised quite how realistic it is, was and will be! LMFAO!

Candle gone wild!

Had to take some photos of my candle that went wild:

Work hell and curry!

It's been a really hellish week at work with things just seeming to take forever and a mess so it was a great relief to get home for the weekend.

Toni and Aaron arrived and we decided to boycott cooking and get a take out for once. Curry and pizza was the order of the day much to the delight of the kids

She's mad I tell you, mad!

Just before we went away Steph got in touch to arrange meeting up with the kids in London as she hasn't seen either of them in over a year. I reluctantly agreed for Sam to have a day off school so that Steph could get cheap tickets (and to be fair she was paying for them rather than trying to persuade me I should!).

All was arranged but while we were away Sam got very upset and said that he didn't want to see her. I wasn't going to make him (he is nearly 16 after all) but told him that he had to call her and explain. He did this last night and she hung up on him. Not long after that I got a text from her saying that Sam owed her £58 for the tickets. I replied that she could still use the tickets to come to London and see Sophie even if Sam wasn't going. She just said no, she wasn't doing that. Sophie then got the hump and said that she wasn't interested either now. Steph sent a really nasty text to Sophie that was awful for her to read.

Today I started getting texts from Steph again asking when she would get her money. I replied that she should try and get a refund but it transpired that the new advance tickets are non-refundable. I then suggested that she meet up with Sophie anyway as she had the tickets but she was adamant that she would get the money back from Sam somehow. She then decided to be funny and also try and go for the sob story with this:

"Cos i aint talkin 2 hr eithr! N as i hav agraphopia ths was goin 2 b a huge trip 2 me n the dr had givn me valium 4 it. So i jst goin 2 b the mothr thy say i am"

So not only has she driven her son away but she is now in jeopardy of also doing the same to Sophie. She is not getting a penny out of me, I'll consider it as offest against the maintenance she hasn't been paying me looking after Sam for the last 18 months and Sophie for the last year.

The woman is quite plainly a stonebonker. Treating her kids in that manner is just outrageous (although this wouldn't be the first time).

Toni's tattoo

Nice and simple, I like it!!

Midweek visit

Was delighted that Toni decided to come over tonight. Went to Asda and George to get some bits. Had spaghetti bolgnaise for dinner and chilled out in front of TV. Toni had a shower while I did some Caps stuff and then it was time for snuggles.

Upgrade madness

Spent the day pulling my hair out preparing customer upgrades. It's been relatively smooth recently but these are customers who are on much older releases so preparing things has been a tad traumatic and frustrating. Got there in the end though!

Happy House, Happy House!

It's a Happy House!
Well it is for me anyway. Was delighted to watch Mo and Kat get an early eviction from Big Brother tonight. Both Sam and I were ecstatic when Kat got booted out as we would really have hated her to win.

Sad I know but hey................ LOL

Last.FM listening post

Here's last week's top picks music lovers!

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Top weekly artists:


Overall top tracks:


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Yoinks, sacre bleu, bloody phone!

There was a knock on the bedroom door this morning which woke me up with a start. Sam then shouted, "Dad, it's twenty past eight!"

I jumped out of bed to check my phone to find that it had switched itself off overnight and so none of my alarms were triggered. Mad dash to get dressed before shooting out the door to catch the 08:40 train to Shenfield.

Managed to get into work at 09:15 very soggy as it was pissing with rain and there is a hole in my shoe.........oh joy!

Ugh back at work

Well it had to happen and it was back to work today. Sad thing is that it seemed like I had never been away once I was back at my desk. On the plus side nothing bad happened while I was on holiday so there was no shit to deal with.

Came home and watched TV and had dinner with the kids and sat around and chat. It's been buzzing for the past 10 days so it was quite nice just to kick back and relax, just the three of us.

Caught up with both mum and dad as well this evening before watching Big Brother with the kids. After that Toni and I chatted on MSN for a while. It was kind of weird with her being back home again.